For Charlton supporters who grew up during the club’s most recent spell in the Premier League, the past 15 years have not been kind. A series of disastrous takeovers after relegation in 2007 sent the Addicks into freefall that has them languishing halfway down League One and facing an even more uncertain future under potentially yet another group of owners.
“Charlton is the most underperforming club in the country,” says Rick Everitt, the editor of fanzine Voice of the Valley since 1988. “That’s not to say that it should automatically be in the Premier League, although obviously it has that potential, but it should certainly be mid-table in the Championship, if it was decently run.”
